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Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 52 km north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on 2021-12-15 08:45:03 IST -

Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 52 km north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on 2021-12-15 08:45:03 IST Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 52 km north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on 2021-12-15 08:45:03 IST

Light magnitude 3.9 earthquake at 15 km depth

Earthquake details

Date & timeDec 15, 2021 03:15:03 UTC -
Local time at epicenter2021-12-15 08:45:03 IST
StatusConfirmed
Magnitude3.9
Depth15.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude34.82°N / 73.62°E (Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Antipode34.82°S / 106.38°W
Shaking intensityLight shaking near epicenter
Felt0 reports
Primary data sourceNCS (National Center for Seismology)
Nearby towns and cities52 km (32 mi) NNE of Muzaffarabad (Azad Kashmir) (pop: 725,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
57 km (35 mi) ENE of Battagram (pop: 700,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
67 km (42 mi) NE of Mansehra (pop: 66,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
84 km (52 mi) NNE of Abbotabad (pop: 120,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
95 km (59 mi) NW of Bāramūla (Jammu and Kashmir, India) (pop: 77,300) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
95 km (59 mi) NNE of Havelian (pop: 40,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
98 km (61 mi) NW of Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir, India) (pop: 63,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
133 km (83 mi) NNE of Islamabad (pop: 601,600) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
146 km (91 mi) NNE of Rawalpindi (Punjab) (pop: 1,743,100) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
208 km (129 mi) ENE of Peshawar (pop: 1,218,800) | Show on map | Quakes nearby
Estimated seismic energy released4.5 x 1010 joules (12.4 megawatt hours, equivalent to 10.7 tons of TNT) | about seismic energy
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Mag.DepthLocationSource
3.915 kmPakistanNCS

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